RICA Stumbles Ahead
The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Amendment Bill (RICA) still has some life in it despite my previous pleadings for it to be killed.
So once again I implore government to scrap this law. It’s intended aim, to register pre-paid SIM cards so that cell owners can easily be traced to fight crime, is easily subverted by even the most simpleton of criminals. However it is this laws onerous regulations, that require nearly 25 million people to register their phones within a year, that threaten to remove the only source of telecommunication from millions of poor South Africans that is the real reason this law needs to be thrown out.